We don’t think we’ve ever seen anyone having this much fun in a prescription scuba mask! Portable’s special Australian visitor, Erik Beck from Indy Mogul, is not leaving any stone or piece of coral unturned in his great adventure down under.

Alec Monopoly is a name you may not recognise, but if you’ve hung out in downtown Los Angeles in the last couple years, chances are you’ve seen one of his Mr. Monopoly characters plastered across the city. The elusive street artist recently sat down with Huffington Post contributor, John Ennis, to discuss where he draws his inspiration, and how his work fits into everything else that’s going on in the L.A. landscape.

One of the best bands to emerge from California in the last few years wears its love of the West Coast proudly on its sleeve…literally. Bethany Cosentino, frontwoman of Best Coast has, among her other scattered tattoos, an outline of her home state on her forearm and in this video you can see just how strong her relationship with the place is.

If you could ask Werner Herzog one thing, what would it be? “What do shoes taste like?” would probably our first query, but that’s not the point.

People have been booking taxis, ordering pizzas and meeting potential lovers with their iPhones for years (like, two years), and now the device allows those who own smart-phones (smart-phowners?) to get more out of their magazines that the plebs who don’t.

In his first video blog Erik is asking your advice on what to do and how to prepare for what should be an awesome Outback adventure. Hilarious! This guy is going to be cracker. We already have front row seats. Secretly hoping he brings the puppet!

Tickets are being snapped up like Tim Tams at a diet factory!

“Life is like a box of chocolates, so are people.” This Tom Hanks-inspired idiom is the focus of the Getting to Know You project, an initiative of The New Pop.

It’s the lead-up to the World Basketball Festival and you’re collaborating with Eric Elms to design a mural, helping Andrew Jefferey Wright design some posters, Carri Munden from UK label Cassette Playa is looking over your costume designs and you’re laying down some fresh beats with A-Trak. Pinch me I’m dreaming? Have I gone to design heaven? Nope it’s just the Make Something Workshops…

I really think that Twitter and I would get along. We both like telling people every minuscule, banal detail of our lives (thanks for letting me do that, by the way. You’re a good guy, Twitter) and we both really dig Jason Schwartzman’s breakout performance in Wes Anderson’s breakout “Wes Anderson” film, Rushmore.

During their press tour for Scott Pilgrim vs the World, Schwartzman and Michael Cera stopped by the local Atlanta news station and wound up reading the weather. Or trying to, anyway.